baby oil
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈbeɪbi ɔɪl/
:
aceite para bebés
- My mum used to use Johnson's baby oil on her skin and then wipe her over the tissue, but she has not a single wrinkle.
- a bottle of baby oil
- slather baby oil
- rub baby oil
Have you ever in your life purchased bottle of baby oil?
- Have you ever in your life purchased bottle of baby oil?
- And then we wanted to put baby oil on top and dance.
- Everyone's talking about the baby oil, not the the coconut oil.
- They grab surveillance equipment, guns, baby oil, the whole thing.
- If it was just baby oil, did you hear what the prosecutor said?
- And they were just like, oh, they give me a like a, a jug, a jug of baby oil.
Examples
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You got any baby oil?
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I am thinking about how tomorrow I will lie out on a towel in the yard, slicked up with baby oil to get going on my tan.
Fiction book (2002) -
Someone get me some more baby oil!
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Why do I smell baby oil?
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I don't have the baby oil.
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Then you anoint her with baby oil.
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I wake up in the morning; there's a towel on the floor, and there's baby oil on the bedside table.
Fiction book (2001) -
When he came to the next verse, Leitonen produced a vial of baby oil, which he poured into the palm of his left hand.
Fiction book (1994) -
She always carried baby oil in her purse and patted it onto her face, which would have been savaged a little while ago by Wayne's bristles.
Fiction book (1994) -
We kids were given bottles of baby oil before setting off for the community pool.
How Gentle
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a gentle moisturizing oil formulated for babies' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'baby' (infant) with 'oil' (a liquid product), following the common noun‑noun compound pattern meaning 'oil for babies'. This straightforward compositional pattern is cross‑linguistically common and would be readily inferred by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Baby oil comes from the simple image of a small bottle of oil used to rub on a baby's skin after a bath to keep it 'soft' and 'moisturized'.